YES:
MR. SPEAKER:
Your Committee on Education , to which was referred House Bill 1479 , has had
the same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the House with the
recommendation that said bill be amended as follows:
of the education roundtable. The categories or designations must reflect
various levels of improvement.
school subject to interventions under this chapter remain eligible
pupils under IC 20-43-4-1 of the school corporation where the
student has legal settlement.
(g) The state board shall receive recommendations from the
department and determine the amounts of state tuition support and
federal funds that are necessary to fund options for improvement
implemented by the state board.
(h) The department shall do the following:
(1) Withhold the determined amount from state tuition
support and federal funds otherwise to be distributed to the
school corporation for the affected students.
(2) Enter into any contracts necessary to implement the
options for improvement implemented by the state board,
including contracts with a special management team.
(3) Make payments under the contracts under subdivision (2)
with funds withheld from the school corporation under this
section.
The amount withheld under this section may not exceed the total
aggregate per pupil funding for the affected students.".
Page 6, delete lines 35 through 42.
Page 8, line 13, after "If" insert " two (2) consecutive".
Page 8, line 25, delete "school corporation," and insert " school,".
Page 8, line 26, delete "corporation a separate school corporation"
and insert " a separate school".
Page 8, line 28, delete "corporation".
Page 8, line 30, delete "school corporation;" and insert " school;".
Page 8, line 33, delete "corporation".
Page 8, line 36, delete "if both school corporations agree, purchase
the building" and insert " purchase the building it has used while it
was a turnaround academy for the amount of any outstanding debt
currently owed on the building. If there is no debt owed on the
building, the school corporation must transfer ownership of the
building to the independent school corporation, which must pay
one dollar ($1) to the school corporation.".
Page 8, delete lines 37 through 38.
Page 8, line 39, delete "corporation".
Page 8, line 40, delete "body appointed" and insert " board as
follows:
(1) The highest level official of the political subdivision shall
appoint three (3) members to the governing board.
(2) The mayor or town manager of the city or town in which
the school is located shall forward at least ten (10) names to
the state board by a reasonable deadline set by the state
board, from which the state board shall appoint two (2)
members.
(3) The county council of the county in which the school is
located shall forward at least ten (10) names to the state board
by a reasonable deadline set by the state board from which
the state board shall appoint two (2) members.".
Page 8, delete lines 41 through 42.
Page 9, delete lines 1 through 4, begin a new paragraph and insert:
" (b) An initial governing board appointed under subsection
(a):".
Page 9, line 5, delete "(2)" and insert " (1)".
Page 9, line 6, delete "(3)" and insert " (2)".
Page 9, line 8, delete "(4)" and insert " (3)".
Page 9, line 11, delete "(b)" and insert " (c)".
Page 9, line 11, delete "corporation".
Page 9, line 13, delete "corporation".
Page 9, line 14, delete "corporation".
Page 9, line 18, delete "school" and insert " school.".
Page 9, delete line 19.
Page 9, line 20, delete "corporation".
Page 9, line 21, delete "school corporation." and insert " school.".
Page 9, line 25, before "or any" delete "corporation".
Page 9, line 25, after "part of the" delete "school corporation." and
insert " school.".
Page 9, line 28, delete "school corporation." and insert " school.".
Page 9, line 29, delete "(c)" and insert " (d)".
Page 9, line 30, delete "corporation".
Page 9, line 31, delete "(d)" and insert " (e)".
Page 9, line 32, delete "corporation".
Page 9, line 33, delete "(e)" and insert " (f)".
Page 9, line 33, delete "corporation".
Page 9, line 35, delete "(f)" and insert " (g)".
Page 9, line 36, delete "corporation".
and when so amended that said bill do pass.